Donald Trump's support just soared to a new high

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump's support is rocketing even
higher in the aftermath of his proposal to ban
Muslims from entering the US, a new poll released on Monday
found.

Trump had a commanding 41% lead in the Monmouth University survey
of Republican and GOP-leaning independent voters.

That represents a 13-point gain from the 28% Trump had in a poll
from the same firm in mid-October.

"It has become abundantly clear that Trump is giving his
supporters exactly what they want, even if what he says causes
the GOP leadership and many Republican voters to cringe,"
pollster Patrick Murray
said in a statement.

The poll found several other candidates' support growing since
October, but they were still far behind Trump. US Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-Texas), who has surged in most recent polls, was at 14%. And
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) was at 10%.

Other candidates weren't so lucky. Retired neurosurgeon Ben
Carson saw his support sag to 9%, while former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush was at just 3%.

Last Friday, Trump blasted Monmouth's polling operation in the
wake of
one of their surveys finding Cruz ahead of him in Iowa.

"We're leading in most of the polls. We're leading in every poll
— no, every poll — except [in] Iowa there was one poll:
Monmouth," Trump said. "I've never heard [of] Monmouth. What the
hell is Monmouth? What is Monmouth? Explain it. I don't like
Monmouth. You know why I don't like it? Because they always treat
me badly, also. I only like polls that treat me well."